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"The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting" - Milan Kundera.
Hopefully, my disorganised collection of news and analysis can answer some of your questions, and question your answers.
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Probably not.
Why is it when we hear the phrase “working class” it is inevitably preceded by “white”…?
When will the Beeb do a series of programmes called “working class” asking if the labouring masses are have been ignored by the government in an effort to enrich the already-rich…? They’d have a better case to make…
Well “working class” is just an accent these days, no? As I understood it, we’re all middle class but some of us say “tea” instead of “dinner” and “dinner” instead of “lunch” and that’s the only difference. Anything else is just chavs and scroungers. But then, “working class” is also meant to be a persecution complex (because of course, there’s no actual, wholesale persecution and systematic exploitation going on, it’s just resentment and paranoia), and better we get agitated about the foreigns than about the bosses.
To be fair, I doubt the actual programmes will be quite as reactionary as this advert. I mean, they’d have a job…
Over on its youtube page, the fash are in numbers plugging their mayoral candidate…
Seems the vid has been taken down!
Meanwhile, there’s now a post at the Tomb about this ad, for anyone who wonders what the hell we’re talking about:
http://leninology.blogspot.com/2008/02/bbc-discovers-concern-for-working-class.html
Did I speak too soon? Rivers of Blood wasn’t as bad as it could have been, but it wasn’t great.
I can’t bring myself to watch any of the programmes in the White season. My fear is what the effect will be on the far right’s prospects in the local elections come may 1st
I know there’s gonna be a drama, White Girl, about a kid with an abusive Dad and alcoholic Mum turning to Islam. That might not be so bad - I saw an interview with the lead actress and she had thought it was just a one-off drama in it’s own right, and was pretty uncomfortable to learn about the whole White season thing.
Rivers of Blood was grim though. It was about Enoch Powell: not, as you might have gathered from lefty smears, an evil racist Tory, but a maverick who didn’t always play by the rules but sure was in touch with what the White Working Class were all thinking. He was worried, you see, that multicultural England would suffer the same ethnic violence as post-Independence India (no mention of Partition, of course, what are real-life grievances next to fundamental concerns like “race”, this reminds me of the tosser who blamed the Arab-Israeli conflict on aggressivity born of the zinc deficiency inherent in a diet rich in unleavened bread), and on the one hand he turned out to be wrong but on the other hand… 7/7!
Charlie makes an interesting point - I have never heard asian, black, east asian people referred to as working class outside of a few academic books. I suppose the expresses the logic of bourgeois multiculturalism - race is the primary identifier, and being working class is one subordinate attribute of the white urban poor.
That’s one way of looking at it, yeah. “Inner city” is the equivalent signifier for Black people, I guess.
The establishment is surely worried that class divisions - something that everyone since Thatcher has gone all out to obfuscate - are again starting to become impossible to ignore. Turning troublesome class consciousness into more manageable “race” consciousness is an obvious dirty trick for them to try and play.
An equally significant and illuminating debate:
http://histomatist.blogspot.com/2008/06/is-white-upper-class-going-fascist.html